(Long) Weekend Reading: Special Labor Day Edition

What better to do with the 24 hours of leisure we call Labor Day than to learn more about labor history?

• For Labor Day the National History Education Clearinghouse is featuring a variety of labor history resources, including quick introductions to the histories of women in the workplace and the auto industry during World War II, and (for you teachers out there) lesson plans on cotton mills and the Progressive Era.

• See for yourself if labor historian Rosemary Feurer is justified in proclaiming her website the “most comprehensive bibliography of information, documents and links of U.S. labor history sites on the internet.”

• Cornell University hosts a website devoted to the story of the Triangle Factory Fire of 1911, in which 146 people died — mostly young immigrant women working in what was little more than a sweatshop. It features materials held by Cornell’s Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation.